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Description:: Sheet music cover for "Levi Lion, or thats the best link in an Isralites chain; a new comic song," written by an amateur; adapted by I. Lawson, published London: J. Fentum.

Description:: Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the ceremony of Havdalah. Original illustration from the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.

Description:: Hand-colored engraving depicting the celebration of Simchat Torah by the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart.

Description:: Metal engraving of Moses and Aaron flanking the Chumash, with Torah crown above it. The image above depicts Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Saini, surrrounded by crowds of ancient Israelites. The image below depicts the Temple in Jerusalem.

Description:: Black-and-white lithograph depicting a Jewish man astride a sow riding in the direction in the direction of Berlin, while a man in a cart gives chase.

Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte. In German, the text reads : --"Herrrr! Nehmen Sie die schlechten Lederstühl, dies sind Kajütenstühl!" --"Was, dies seind kan Jüdestühl? Hob ich doch ezahlet so gut als an Christ!" In English, the text reads : --"Sir! Take the bad leather chair, these are cabin chairs!" --"What, these aren't Jews' chairs? I paid for it just as well as a Christian!"

Description:: Black-and-white drawings depicting scenes of a pogrom against Jews.

Description:: Caricature by Louis M. Glackens published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Isaacs: "Dere, now, I vill not vaste time mit dose things no more. Health or no health, time ish moneysh, and moneysh is vot I vos after." 2. --Mrs. Isaacs: "Oh, vot shall I do! Der doctor says as he vill die of der fatness if he don't take der dump-pell exercise." 3. --Mrs. Isaacs: "I haf it! I vill draw some plans und dake dem to dot iron foundries. He shall dake dot exercises." 4. --Mrs. Isaacs: " Come up in dot exercise room, Morris." --Mr. Isaacs: "I vill go, but no exercise for me on your life not." 5 --Mr. Isaacs: "Oh, Repecca! You vos one of dose ingeniuses. I could keep dis up all tay."

Description:: Engraving of a Jewish high priest and Levite in their vestments, as described in Exodus 28.

Description:: Engraving and text from Darstellungen menschlicher Narrheiten (Representations of human follies). In German, the text reads : "Der Juden ihr Betrug und List. / Beӱ weiten nicht zulänglich ist, / Partiten so ich mit Manier. / Kan spielen hurtig dort und hier. / Ja, ja, die Mauschel lassen dir, / Das Præ du sehr verschmiktes Thier." In English the text reads : "The Jews' betrayals and tricks. / Far and wide it is inadequate, / To make false coins in such a manner. / I can play daily here and there. / Yes, yes, the Mauschel let you. / That's the priority you bejeweled animal." This engraving is part of a series satirizing the foolish schemes people believed during the economic crisis in the early 17th century.

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